On Thursday, Oct 10, 2002, at 19:38 US/Pacific, Rogério Brito wrote:
Today, (after some discussions in my family) I was thinking if
it was a good thing or not to get my iBook. Aside from it
being expensive, and even though having 128MB more of memory
than when I got the iBook (I now have 256MB) Apple's own
operating system (even Jaguar) is *quite* slow with this
computer.
I just switched to OSX 10.2 on my TiBook 400 after a year of running
Linux & OS9 under MOL. I have to say that it was like stepping in to
molasses at first. I had 256mb in the laptop. However, suspecting it
was mostly a memory issue I updated to 640mb, and performance is quite
acceptable now. I'm certainly not defending OSX's prodigious appetite
for RAM, but it is nice to know that it is mostly memory bound rather
than being CPU bound, since that is a problem that can be addressed
much more cheaply (I paid $150 for a 512mb module).
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